An Article I Wrote a While Back

Little space do we have in our hearts for true Heroes. Our heroes are those who are fed to us through the television sets that lavishly act as slow killers to our minds and hearts. Our heroes are actors and actresses who make money off of our joyful ignorance. These so called heroes some of them confused even of their own sexuality assimilate our minds in accepting to the perversions that they preach.

The dictionary defines role model as a person who serves as a model in a particular behavioral or social role for another person to emulate. Thus a role model in this current society is one whom we emulate in our day to day dealings in our dress, behavior and character. If we truly say we love the Prophet (PBUH) like we all say we do then we should do our best to imitate him in these aspects of life.

The Prophet (PBUH) said referring to the Day of Judgment “You will be with those whom you love.” The scholars of Hadith have ruled out in agreement that this particular type of love is not just simply affection. However the love referred to in this particular Hadith is the love you act upon in order to follow the Sunnah of the Beautiful Prophet (PBUH).

History tells us of real men and real woman. Men and woman who were so brave that they stood ground and fought armies on their own who were so intellectual that until this day their tactics of man to man combat, infantry and war are until this day practiced and used as training guides in modern warfare. Men who knew how to not only fight wars but also be honest in business and maintain the purest and healthiest house holds to ever live on.

Men who took care of citizens by morning, defended the truth in the battlefield by evening and fulfilled the obligations of assisting in family chores at home and spend the last third of the night standing in prayer to the one and only all mighty God to whom they dedicated there life to in entirety.

Men and woman who created systems that currently provide welfare, social order and justice in the so called modern developed world. Woman who watched there young beautiful and innocent children be buried alive and were able to move on and act as the best and sweetest of mothers. These are the role models whom we have lost spaces in our hearts for. There every detail and words cast tears in our eyes. Tears of shame and confusion for truly without the hard work of these role models and the dedication they had for the worship of Allah (SWT) leave us with nothing but guilt and love for them.



We have replaced the names and spaces in our hearts of the most gentle of creations such as Ummul Momineen Ayesha Siddiqui (RA) and the most strongest of creation like Khalid bin Walid also known as Saifullah/ The Sword of Allah (SWT) with people like Tupac Shakur and Jennifer Lopez who if we act like guarantee to us nothing but more time in the blazing hell fire. Our minds and hearts are filled with lyrics of these so called role models that contradict the Ayahs of the Holy Quran.



A role model is one whom we can look up to and not be confused. A role model is one whom is not taking from you but rather giving back to you. A role model is not someone whom you must buy products to relate to them. A role model is not someone who has more then you in wealth or beauty.

The role models that once walked this earth are now either in the darkest deepest holes or in the most spacious, brightest and relaxed environments ever felt to them. The decision is in our hands. Death is a reality the purest of creation the Prophets have faced it and we will also face this reality. We see the reality of death around us on a daily bases. An earth quake in Pakistan kills 40 000 the same night in Guatemala a mud slide swallows a village of 1 400. The life of this world truly has no guarantee death can come to us anytime as it came to these people.

Allah says in the Quran in numerous places that punishment will strike when least expected. In Surah Ash-Shu'ara where Allah (SWT) tells us of the story of the prophet Musa (PBUH) and Firuan Allah (SWT) says “The (Penalty) will come to them of a sudden, while they perceive it not”.

We are not aware of when our time is. A young baby who is born may very well die the next day and an old person on the last expected hours may live for further days. The reality is told to us clear in Surah Al Imran when Allah (SWT) says “every soul shall have a taste of death”.

Allah (SWT) is all knowing and all aware. He is the creator of life and death. We bow to him and pray to him. He gives us sustenance and we rely on him for each and every bounty he gives us. Allah (SWT) is in need of nothing of us. Truly if we understand this concept then we can grasp the power to understand that we must worship with all entirety and be like the one whom he has commanded us to be like the beautiful Prophet (SAW).

The choice is in our hands to be as we choose heaven is given to us as is hell because truly in the end “You will be with those whom you love” so ask yourself who is it that you love? And Allah (SWT) knows best.

"Whether ye hide what is in your hearts or reveal it, Allah knows it all: He knows what is in the heavens, and what is on earth. And Allah has power over all things.” Al-Imran